Health care system wrong
To the editor:
This healthcare plan not only has us paying for abortion (murdering of babies) with our tax dollars, it will cause untold inflation. When you increase the cost of operation of a company, no matter what its product, it must raise its price to its consumer. That consumer, in turn must then increase its cost to its consumer. The end result is always an increased cost to us, the ultimate consumer.
Right now, with the highest unemployment ever, the American people do not need to have their costs increased. We do not need for business to refuse to hire people because they have no idea what their government is going to do to them.
According to figures reported, there are approximately 30 million people without insurance. We are a country of people who are free to do what they want. Many of them are not interested in purchasing health insurance; that is, not until they have sickness in their family and the costs exceed their ability to pay.
This is an example of lack of planning in many cases. My father taught me that I should save my money so that if I have a need, then I can afford to meet that need. That is not what our society today teaches our people. There are clinics that provide care to the needy. This is where the government should direct its efforts, which our representatives refused to provide for auditing.
Perhaps “We the people” need to let our representative know how we feel. Just a reminder, on abortion, God does not create a baby unless He has a reason for the birth. We certainly should not be killing His creations. We also are His creation.
Harmon Austin
St. Cloud

Applauds Horner
To the editor:
State Rep. Mike Horner’s bill to stop adoption agencies from discriminating against prospective adoptive parents who own firearms has passed overwhelmingly in the Florida legislature. His willingness to stand up for families who chose to exercise a constitutional right and protect them from political bias must be applauded.
Adoption agencies in Florida have been profiling prospective adoptive parents who own firearms and treating applicants for adoption, who chose to exercise the constitutional right to own a firearm, differently than non-firearms owning applicants.
As a condition of adoption, prospective parents who own firearms were being forced to register their firearms and ammunition with the agency and to store the firearms and ammunition separately in locked cabinets – rendering the right of self-defense and defense of family virtually impossible.
State law already regulates the safe storage of firearms and provides criminal penalties when firearms are accessed by minors due to a failure to store firearms safely.
Further, state law already prohibits these agencies from regulating firearms or registering firearms, but some agencies were ignoring the law.
Rep. Horner’s bill will put a stop to these abuses. Additionally, his bill gives authority to The Florida Department of Children, Families and Elder Affairs to revoke licenses of agencies that continue to violate the law.
Because of Rep. Horner’s bill, more children can be placed in loving homes because discrimination against gun owners by agency personnel and investigators will stop.
Bravo and thank you, Rep. Mike Horner. Kissimmee and Osceola County should be proud of you.
Marion P. Hammer
NRA past president
Executive director,
Unified Sportsmen of Florida